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Jeremiah 13:22

And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.

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ASV

And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore are these things come upon me? for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thy heels suffer violence.

KJV

And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.

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12 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְכִ֤יve.Khiand ifH3588 →
תֹאמְרִי֙to.me.Riyou will sayH559 →
בִּלְבָבֵ֔ךְbil.va.Vekhin heart yourH3824 →
מַדּ֖וּעַma.Du.a'why?H4069 →
קְרָאֻ֣נִיke.ra.'U.nihave they happened to meH7122 →
אֵ֑לֶּה'E.lehthese [things]H428 →
בְּרֹ֧בbe.Roin [the] greatness ofH7230 →
עֲוֹנֵ֛ךְ'a.vo.Nekhiniquity yourH5771 →
נִגְל֥וּnig.Luthey have been uncoveredH1540 →
שׁוּלַ֖יִךְshu.La.yikhskirts yourH7757 →
נֶחְמְס֥וּnech.me.Suthey have suffered violenceH2554 →
עֲקֵבָֽיִךְ׃'a.ke.Va.yikhheels yourH6119 →

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Nahum 3:5“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.Jeremiah 16:10–11When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’Jeremiah 5:19And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”Hosea 2:10And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.Deuteronomy 7:17You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”Jeremiah 9:2–9If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.Lamentations 1:8Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.Jeremiah 13:26So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.Ezekiel 23:26They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry.Ezekiel 16:37therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.Ezekiel 16:37–39therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.Isaiah 3:17the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”Jeremiah 2:17–19Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?Jeremiah 2:25You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’Jeremiah 16:10When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’Hosea 12:8And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”Zephaniah 1:12And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’Deuteronomy 18:21You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”

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